I am very late to this thread but have been following it. It may be useful to consider what respect looks like and is it a value, an attitude or a behaviour, or indeed a set of values, attittudes and behaviours. Acronyms like the above do begin to deepen our understanding but a question like:

Can someone show respect without feeling it? Is that good, bad, acceptable, unacceptable? might help us think critically about how respect is used and operates in schools. And a last point – the film of the book, Wonder, is as good, and available on Netflix at the moment too – many clips are really powerful for learners and thinkers including ourselves!

Great idea of exploring the concept school wide and would love for my school to be a part of this. My school is based in Shanghai, primary from PR to grade 5. As an IB PYP school, respect is within our learner profile (a list of attributes which help guide our school in developing the learners). I will speak with teachers in the coming week and share what you are doing!
Looking forward to seeing this develop! Best, Karen

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Thu, 04 Oct 2018 18:04:58 +0000https://dialogueworks.co.uk/?p=248#comment-31One thing I encourage my teachers to do is to carry out a little research into a particular concept when they know they’re going to be working with it in a subsequent session. The best way to do this is to simply put the word ‘philosophy’, followed by the concept in question, into Google and pick one of the first few sites that come up. What you read will then give you some background to the concept from a philosophy point of view and, often, will help point you towards an activity. For respect, check out https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/respect/ and you’ll find a really interesting article. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a great site for this purpose but there’s a wealth of philosophy on the Internet.
As well as giving you some idea of what philosophers have said, it also helps you be more aware of the philosophical element of what the children are saying. It doesn’t take long to do but I promise it will make a massive difference to how you approach your inquiries.
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Wed, 03 Oct 2018 02:57:26 +0000https://dialogueworks.co.uk/?p=248#comment-30Hello Sian,
I hope you and the lovely children you teach are well. Cindy and I still fondly remember visiting your school and observing a wonderful P4C you did with the young children.
Thank you for getting the ball rolling with ICE. We may try your book idea for a stimulus or Bob’s idea above with our young children to see what develops from it. I also like Nick’s idea of exploring the concept by mapping it. I will suggest this to our Primary and Middle school.
We are on holiday until next week so hopefully we’ll get something up by October 12th.
Keep up the good work,
Stephen
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Tue, 02 Oct 2018 15:48:48 +0000https://dialogueworks.co.uk/?p=248#comment-29Hi Sian,

I wonder if linking the idea of respect and listening might be helpful? Listening to someone is a good way of showing them respect, and you are more likely to listen to someone whose views you respect.

So perhaps you could try an activity along these lines: have four or five pictures of identifiable characters such as, a policeman, a teacher, a nurse, a lollipop lady, a child et cetera. Then ask the children questions such as: “ Who would you be most likely to listen to if:

– they told you this was a safe place to cross the road;
– your tummy ache will be gone by tomorrow morning;
– don’t eat this sweet. It’s disgusting!
– Etc.”
Then you could have a discussion about why they gave whatever answer they did, and tried to connect that to the idea that they would listen to the person whose view the most “respect”, (i.e. expect to be right)

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Sun, 30 Sep 2018 21:42:43 +0000https://dialogueworks.co.uk/?p=248#comment-28Hi Sian. How about this Sesame Street video? It’s great as it also includes children and is just typical Sesame Street fun! https://youtu.be/GOzrAK4gOSo
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Sun, 30 Sep 2018 19:38:07 +0000https://dialogueworks.co.uk/?p=248#comment-27We are finding it quite difficult to help the youngest children at our school to understand the concept of respect. Does anyone have any ideas?
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Fri, 28 Sep 2018 17:05:04 +0000https://dialogueworks.co.uk/?p=248#comment-26Some schools define themselves as Rights RESPECTING Schools. It might be interesting to look at their values and see what is shared and what is different about theirs and Haselworth’s.